Inocybe tricolor

Inocybe tricolor is a rare member of the genus Inocybe which is widely distributed in temperate forests. It is a small mycorrhizal mushroom which contains the hallucinogens psilocybin and psilocin.

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Description

• Cap: Brick red to chocolate brown, lighter towards the margin, convex to umbonate, with a fibrillose to squamulose cap. Usually less than 4cm across and has incurved margin until very mature.
• Gills: adnate and very numerous, pale cream brown to yellowish tan.
• Spores: Smooth and ellipsoid to oval, measuring 7.5 x 4.5 micrometres, ochre to tan brown.
• Stipe: 2.5-6 cm long, 4 to 6 mm thick, and is equal width for the whole length, sometimes with some swelling at the base.
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Distribution and habitat

Inocybe tricolor is a rare mushroom found under Norway Spruce in central Europe.

Edibility

Hallucinogenic. Contains psilocybin.